The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-11-12
HEARD ON THE STREET.
Some &C The Ideas That Fill the Heads
Of ssNew Dominion Readers.

some NJ the lucas That r III Ut MENUS
Of s'New Dominion Readers.
Were going to have good weather
till Christmas" remarked weather
prophet, with an air of assurance.
"All right" reioined the NEW Do
MINIoN. you're a gentleman and
we hope-a prophet"
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"Your town is beginning to get
very much better class of houses"
remarked casual visitor. "The
new houses that have recently gone
up are credit to the place"
"Yes, we are catching on" said
the New DOMINION, with uneonceal-
ed satisfaction.
"Morgantown would never be heard
of except for its pretty girls, said
Fairmonter as he stepped on the
4 30 train the other evening to go
home.
"Oh, no. / see. you have en-
countered some one of its fair dam
sells during your visit, and have been
wounded?" rejoined the scribe.
Not bit of it," said he II
never see them when / come to your
town, but every now and then you
send a speciman or two up to our
place and they create sensation
and capture the town. Last week
everybody wanted to know who those
young bells were circulating around
Fairmont, and every young man had
been craning his neck after them so
often that it was stiff with the strain,
until all Fairmont had become an
interrogation point on this topic
who are those two young ladies?
At last it was answered. of course.
that they were from Morgantown.
That's your main hold" said the
Fairmonter severely, as he entered
the car, .'you haven't anything else
to brag on"
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What is DIR. Morris going to do
about building that town hallY'
II am not authorized to answer
that question at present." said the
New DOMINION to one of an hundred
inquirers asking the same question.
That's the very best use DR.. Nor
ris could make of that corner" con-
tinued the inquirer. "He could put
up plain frame, one-story building
there that would answer every pur-
pose, for five or six hundred dollars,
and it would pay him 20 per cent on
the investment. Morgantown don't
specially care for an expensive,
snowy building for this purpose.
All the people care for is suitable
hall, of sufficient size to comfortably
seat six or eight hundred people,
that can be comfortably heated and
ventilated and is centrally located
1t does not matter how rough the
building may be on the outside, or
how plain on the inside. All we
need is capacity. comfort and con-
venience. A skating rink kind of a
building would suit just as we'll as
brown stone or granite DR.. Morris
has laid good brick pavement
along his lot, and the hall, if built
on the rear lot, would only be few
steps off Main street, in the very
center of the town. 1t is an ideal
location. Now, why can't the Doctor
If he don't want to put up an ex-
pensive building; if he wants to take
care of himself as well as the town
why don't he just put up a straight
up-and down plank building and
strip it, after the style of Ed. Protz-
mans picture gallery. Give this a
coat of paint and it looks first rate
lit makes decent building. If it
is plastered on the inside and has a
cathedral roof, it looks just as we'll
as if it cost thousands of dollars.
The only furniture needed is plain
stage, or platform. and graduated
seats. A building of this kind, six
ty by thirty feet, could be put up for
from five to six hundred dollars.
There are lots Of men who will take
the contract at those figures. Now,
nobody will say that the rentals of
a town hall in Morgantown will fall
below 800 in any year. The income
will amount to double that sum in a
few years, when it comes to be known
that we have town hall.
"You see," said he, "that viewed
from this standpoint, it is not so
much a matter of patriotism as of
business. 1t is a good business
project. And since the NEW DoMIN-
ION has suggested it, ] have no doubt
that somebody who has lot will
take up with the idea if DR.. Morris
don't"